Xylakant

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by Xylakant 8mo ago
Equating both of these things is dangerous and wrong. It’s not as if these are the same things. Creationism is factually provably wrong by all standards of modern science. Pretending that the position of “we ban teaching things that are kno
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by Xylakant 8mo ago
Quite a few of the LLM features actually add value for a certain group of users. Automated image descriptions for the visually impaired, automatic translation, ... Running those on local models is a net benefit for quite a few people, but t
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by Xylakant 8mo ago
People vehemently asked for a kill switch that does exactly that - kill off all AI-related features. I quite like the local LLM translations etc., but jedem Tierchen sein Plaisierchen, as they say over here.
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by Xylakant 8mo ago
> But being at a key canal junction doesn't mean much today, since modern railroads and steamships rendered the canals obsolete a century-ish ago. That is true for the English narrow channels which are way too narrow to support any
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by Xylakant 8mo ago
This exists, in german it's called Eisspeicherheizung. You have a few cubic meters of water buried in a concrete bunker and you use a heat pump to pull energy out of the water until it freezes. The system not only uses the thermal mass
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by Xylakant 8mo ago
Thermal solar panels have the advantage of being very simple and surprisingly effective. But if you're lacking space to put up both solar cells and thermal, you can use combined panels which have a solar cell with a backing thermal sys
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by Xylakant 8mo ago
it also reduces peak load - you can heat water up slower with a lower powered heater. I have a 35 liter warm water tank in my garden shed that pulls about 3.5kw - an equivalent on demand heater would need 14kw or more.
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by Xylakant 9mo ago
Social security gets paid on wages. Revenue doesn’t play into it.
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by Xylakant 9mo ago
There is no problem, because no business plan is required.
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by Xylakant 9mo ago
There’s absolutely no need to have a business plan to start a company in Germany. You articles of incorporation and they state a company purpose, but this can be something as simple as “do IT consulting”. Obviously, having a credible plan h
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by Xylakant 9mo ago
There is a significant difference in term of dependency when it comes to solar vs gas/oil. Solar panels are not consumables when int comes to energy production- oil and gas are. China can shutdown the supply of solar panels, but not th
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by Xylakant 9mo ago
I would not consider an accident during a test run with partially disabled safety procedures a regular part of operations - on a normal run, the train should have slowed down or stopped automatically before derailing because it did signific
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by Xylakant 9mo ago
I believe enforcement would solve the problem for Berlin as well. Just hand out substantial fines to change the calculus for the home owner. At the moment, the risk/reward is favoring doing nothing, so that's what a lot of people
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by Xylakant 9mo ago
Funny that you would propose such a practical and simple solution. This has been proposed by the Green Party in Berlin and I’m surprised you didn’t hear the wailing choir of house owners across the Atlantic. “Too impractical”, “too costly”,
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by Xylakant 9mo ago
Pretty much. See the FAQ here https://4000-tonnen.de/faq.html > Wie werden die Kartoffeln geliefert? Die Kartoffeln werden per LKW direkt an Ihre angegebene Adresse geliefert. Die Lieferung erfolgt in einem Big Bag, in d
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by Xylakant 9mo ago
A ton is a big bag (yes, they get delivered in bags and that’s the name for them), which is pretty exactly a cubic meter. 4000 tons is hence a 2x2meter tower, 1km high. Or 20mx20m, 10m high.not sure how high you can stack TV towers or Asian
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by Xylakant 9mo ago
The neighbors snow response contractor had an electric brush on a broom handle, that looked pretty nifty and took like 15 minutes for the whole front to be spotless clean. Then they added a bit of grit, done. The contractor for our block di
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by Xylakant 9mo ago
The great thing is that with all of the encrypted/signed DNS thingys, you now have not one, but multiple options to combine “invalid certificate” and DNS in one outage. You no longer need to choose!
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by Xylakant 9mo ago
The problem is not salting or not - the problem is that the house owners are liable for cleaning the sidewalk and they all outsourced it to the same companies. And the companies unsurprisingly all fail to deliver on their obligations becaus
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by Xylakant 10mo ago
A modern continuation of the Swedish Wasa class?
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by Xylakant 10mo ago
> Saying these features could appear everywhere is no difference from "unsafe" possibly appearing everywhere in Rust. That's not true in practice: Unsafe code is clearly delineated and can be 100% correctly identified. In
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by Xylakant 10mo ago
> It’s mostly C and C++ developers trying to build a new option for solving their same problems. I've observed that a lot of the folks I used to meet at ruby conferences have moved to Rust. No idea what led to this, but maybe it&#x2
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by Xylakant 10mo ago
Oh, I agree that illegal stuff happens in the EU aplenty. The question was whether this is illegal and it almost certainly is. Job postings from recruiters - while morally reprehensible - may just skirt the law, but straight up using applic
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by Xylakant 10mo ago
Any model that charges for self-hosted runner is going to feel unfair to someone. Per seat pricing is better for small orgs with a lot of CI minutes, per-run pricing would be good for orgs with few, long runs, per minute pricing is nicer fo
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by Xylakant 10mo ago
Your iphone is tied to the old apple account and you can't untie it if you can't access the old account. (You can go through support with proof of purchase, but that requires you have proof of purchase at hand etc.)
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by Xylakant 10mo ago
That is good to remember - I'll keep that in mind if I ever want to hire in [Germany, Japan] without spelling this out for some reason.
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by Xylakant 10mo ago
Yes, gitlab does still have free self-hosted runners. OTOH, github has a free organisation plan and gitlab doesn't. So yes, strictly speaking self-hosted runners are free, but you're paying for the dev-seats.
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by Xylakant 10mo ago
Self-hosting all of your CI is yet another tradeoff. The software comes for free (if you're using Free Software, that is), but you now have operational overhead. I'm not saying it's an unreasonable move, but it's also no
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by Xylakant 10mo ago
> I’d be more willing to pay if GH Actions wasn’t so flakey and frustrating (for hosted or self-hosted runners, I use both). This is indeed a reason I do consider leaving GHA. The underinvestment into this part of the product shows. But
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by Xylakant 10mo ago
How do you pay? Because the basic organization plan is free and gives access to GHA and includes 2000 free minutes. If you upgrade the plan, you get more minutes for free - which can be consumed by the cost for free runners. They haven&#x27

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